5.7% ▼ -35.2%
Higher than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 8.8%
- 2016: 7.6%
- 2021: 5.7%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Scone · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Scone
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
A far higher number of residents in Scone rely on public transport stops and routes than people in most similar areas. While the town has a good number of services for its size, very few people actually use them to get to work. Most residents depend on their own cars to get around.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
About 45% of Scone homes have two or more motor vehicles. Only 5.7% of households have no car, which is much higher than most similar areas, though this is still well below the New South Wales figure of 9.2%.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Scone splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (39%) and 1 vehicle (37%), with 3 vehicles at 12%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Not a single person in Scone uses public transport to get to work. This is well below the national figure of 3.1%, and the 8.4% of people working from home is far below the New South Wales average of 31%.
8.4% ▲ +132.2%
Lower than 79% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 3.6%
- 2016: 4.1%
- 2021: 8.4%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 0.2%
- 2016: 0.4%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of employed people who got to work by train, bus, ferry or tram/light rail as their only method of travel on census day.
Public transport access
Stops, services, routes and how far you can get by public transport.
Scone has 4 public transport routes and 9 stops, which is more than about 85% of similar areas. However, the 21.8 weekly departures per 1,000 people is far below the state figure of 1,313.6.
9
Higher than 79% of suburb / locality areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
1.55
Higher than 63% of suburb / locality areas.
Public-transport stops per 1,000 residents — a measure of how densely an area is served (GTFS stops; population from the 2021 Census).
21.8
Higher than 60% of suburb / locality areas.
Scheduled weekly public-transport departures from stops in the area, per 1,000 residents — how often transit actually runs, not just whether a stop exists (GTFS schedules for a representative week; population from the 2021 Census).
4
Higher than 82% of suburb / locality areas.
Distinct public-transport routes serving stops in the area (GTFS feeds).
Getting around
Walking distance to transport and driving time to the city.
It takes about 17 minutes to walk to the nearest public transport stop, which is around the middle for areas of this level.
17
Higher than 56% of suburb / locality areas.
Walking time, in minutes, from the centre of the area to the nearest public-transport stop, along the OpenStreetMap pedestrian network (Valhalla). Blank where no stop is within a reasonable walk.
Sources
- Census of Population and Housing — Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2021 (CC BY 4.0).
- Public transport timetables (GTFS) — State & territory transport agencies, 2026 (CC BY 4.0 (WA: custom PTA licence)).
- Road & path network (OpenStreetMap, via Valhalla) — OpenStreetMap contributors, 2026 (ODbL 1.0).
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Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Scone [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL13518/scone/topic/transport